Microglia in Alzheimer's disease at single-cell level. Are there common patterns in humans and mice?

Y Chen, M Colonna - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2021 - rupress.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by extracellular aggregates of amyloid β peptides,
intraneuronal tau aggregates, and neuronal death. This pathology triggers activation of …

Microglial signatures and their role in health and disease

O Butovsky, HL Weiner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Microglia are the primary innate immune cells in the CNS. In the healthy brain, they exhibit a
unique molecular homeostatic 'signature', consisting of a specific transcriptional profile and …

[HTML][HTML] An in vivo neuroimmune organoid model to study human microglia phenotypes

ST Schafer, AAF Mansour, JCM Schlachetzki, M Pena… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Microglia are specialized brain-resident macrophages that play crucial roles in brain
development, homeostasis, and disease. However, until now, the ability to model …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

A second-generation M1-polarized CAR macrophage with antitumor efficacy

A Lei, H Yu, S Lu, H Lu, X Ding, T Tan, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have successfully treated hematological
malignancies. Macrophages have also gained attention as an immunotherapy owing to their …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived CAR-macrophage cells with antigen-dependent anti-cancer cell functions

L Zhang, L Tian, X Dai, H Yu, J Wang, A Lei… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
The Chimera antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has gained great success in the clinic.
However, there are still major challenges for its wider applications in a variety of cancer …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

Microglia and macrophages in brain homeostasis and disease

Q Li, BA Barres - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Microglia and non-parenchymal macrophages in the brain are mononuclear phagocytes that
are increasingly recognized to be essential players in the development, homeostasis and …

Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer's disease

SR Guttikonda, L Sikkema, J Tchieu, N Saurat… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Aberrant inflammation in the CNS has been implicated as a major player in the
pathogenesis of human neurodegenerative disease. We developed a new approach to …

Microglia in Alzheimer disease: well-known targets and new opportunities

AL Hemonnot, J Hua, L Ulmann… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are the resident macrophages of the central nervous system. They play key roles
in brain development, and physiology during life and aging. Equipped with a variety of …